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JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Woodford will pay… when I walk on the moon By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 3 October 2020 | Updated: 23:01 BST, 3 October 2020 Another month, yet another kick in the teeth for investors who trusted one of the country’s investment stars of the early 2000s to … Read more

It is the biggest story in the world right now. What happens in the US matters more than anything else for our economy and our savings – and the possibility that Donald Trump might be incapacitated a month before the presidential election piles uncertainty onto uncertainty for all of us. So what does it mean … Read more

The return of Asda to British ownership under the leadership of Mohsin and Zuber Issa will bring a fresh dynamic to Britain’s grocery market. It underlines how smart the Competition Commission was to block the Asda merger with Sainsbury’s, which would have cut the number of big grocery chains from four to three. It is … Read more

The return of Asda to British ownership under the leadership of Mohsin and Zuber Issa will bring a fresh dynamic to Britain’s grocery market. It underlines how smart the Competition Commission was to block the Asda merger with Sainsbury’s, which would have cut the number of big grocery chains from four to three. It is … Read more

Our third savings account of the year lasted a month.  Like many savers I was a bit miffed last week when NS&I cut the rate on its easy-access income bonds from a best buy 1.15 per cent to 0.01 per cent. Particularly as I’d only just transferred our money into them four weeks previously.  That was … Read more

Banks have so far managed to avoid making themselves major villains in the pandemic. Unlike some insurers, which have tried to wriggle their way out of paying valid claims to small firms, they have been working with the Government to support business and families. Covid-19 has presented our High Street lenders with an opportunity to … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: A takeover by Royal London makes more sense for LV than selling to a private equity firm By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 29 September 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 29 September 2020 Britain’s mutual financial groups are a much denuded sector. The board of LV, the former Liverpool … Read more

Money Mail has repeatedly raised the alarm about the hard-sell pressure tactics used by funeral firms to exploit grieving families. The competition watchdog was so concerned, it launched a review of the £2 billion-a-year sector in 2018 and, only last month, ordered firms to be more transparent. Yet an undercover investigation by the Telegraph has … Read more

Were it in a less toxic industry, there might be an outcry about the sale of William Hill to a foreign predator.  After all, the company has been highly innovative.  What a shame its advances are in the field of online gambling technology, which makes it trickier to argue it’s a great British business that … Read more